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at this don had be actively not unhelpful. we failed to keep up to the standard and to succeed in addition to the years. the third carriage that we've failed to perceive was a failure to perceive for chelation earlier than we did it. there were a a a certain number of the policy and leadership that was prepared to be all stunned if. that would -- we send them to the guantanamo and negative signal of the those who might consider coopting and being co octave into this system. took as almost addicted to preserve the promise. nevertheless, despite the promise and despite international 10 years of on we are still engaged in a counterinsurgency campaign at into afghanistan, i think we have come a long way then many of us realize. i think some of it is realized in a recent poll just a couple of weeks ago contradiction between south america a filler high degree of optimism. 52% of the afghans think their country is going and then to the right direction. a 53% of them say they are don't prosperous than they were five years ago. the rea
at this don had be actively not unhelpful. we failed to keep up to the standard and to succeed in addition to the years. the third carriage that we've failed to perceive was a failure to perceive for chelation earlier than we did it. there were a a a certain number of the policy and leadership that was prepared to be all stunned if. that would -- we send them to the guantanamo and negative signal of the those who might consider coopting and being co octave into this system. took as almost...
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host: alaska, this is don on the independent line. caller: i am a big fan of obama and timothy geithner. when all of this took place, i am an older guy. i am 83. i was watching everything clear back to the scandal with the prime lending trouble that we had. this is not the gist of the problem. the just of the problem was that somebody came in when they were badly needed and straighten everything out and it was not very pretty. it was even worse before he tried what he did. obama is a scholar. he studied what franklin delano roosevelt did. i lived through the depression. it was not really that great to tell you the truth. i was a little boy, but i can remember it very well. this is what franklin delano roosevelt did it, too. people who changed things have to step on some toes and heard some feelings. what obama did, but timothy geithner did, and what the people did at that time got us out of trouble. we have a bunch better economy now ford obama's second term that we had in the beginning. host: there is a picture of in the paper that f
host: alaska, this is don on the independent line. caller: i am a big fan of obama and timothy geithner. when all of this took place, i am an older guy. i am 83. i was watching everything clear back to the scandal with the prime lending trouble that we had. this is not the gist of the problem. the just of the problem was that somebody came in when they were badly needed and straighten everything out and it was not very pretty. it was even worse before he tried what he did. obama is a scholar....
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host: don williamson may have follow up. any questions about -- any answer to his question about the estate tax, giving gifts to his kids? guest: there is a whole other regime of taxation in this country called the estate tax, and there are gift taxes that go with it. those rules -- there was a time where, in 2010, there was no estate tax in this country, and it was a wonderful opportunity that died, came back in 2011. it was going to come back in 2012 were only people making more than $1 million would be subject to the estate tax. that law has been changed to permit $5 million to be -- even if your viewers feel they do not have anything approaching $5 million, were one spouse to pass away, it behooves the surviving spouse to file a state tax return for the deceased spouse, even though the threshold has not been met. that is to use the unused exclusion on the state tax to be available to the second spouse when he or she passes away. that is a little-known provision in the law that many middle income americans or people who d
host: don williamson may have follow up. any questions about -- any answer to his question about the estate tax, giving gifts to his kids? guest: there is a whole other regime of taxation in this country called the estate tax, and there are gift taxes that go with it. those rules -- there was a time where, in 2010, there was no estate tax in this country, and it was a wonderful opportunity that died, came back in 2011. it was going to come back in 2012 were only people making more than $1...
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and i thank you very much, don, for keeping it in time. >> ok. so try to put all of this together, what do we see? we've given you a smattering of what it is that is in the report. there is a great deal more. when you look at this whole picture, when you examine the evidence, what you see is the emergeans of a complex, modernized cross-agency system organized around these six pillars, as we call them. it's been institutionalized through strong links with national security and national security imperatives as well as unprecedented resource investments. against that backdrop, against that 25-plus years of evolution that has brought us to this point, the recession came along and fundamentally altered the illegal immigration picture which this is attempting to solve. so, because of reduced job demand in the united states and also coincidentally significant structural changes and conditions in mexico, the growth of unauthorized immigration in the united states is at a standstill. strengthened enforcement has become the additional element that is part
and i thank you very much, don, for keeping it in time. >> ok. so try to put all of this together, what do we see? we've given you a smattering of what it is that is in the report. there is a great deal more. when you look at this whole picture, when you examine the evidence, what you see is the emergeans of a complex, modernized cross-agency system organized around these six pillars, as we call them. it's been institutionalized through strong links with national security and national...
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don had been a roommate at u.s.c. and was just leaving the judge advocate's position in the army. i thought, don -- he is very anonymous and would fit in and could do this kind of thing. >> what happened to segretti? >> he went to jail, too. i actually met segretti. he was that close to doing an interview -- i talked to him twice. he was almost ready to do an interview and he didn't do one for the project. >> why? >> i don't know why. he didn't tell me why. >> he lives in california now? >> i really should not say. i found out where he lived as a result of my job. >> for the record, a couple of things. people who want to see the entire interviews should go to nixonlibrary.gov, or come to us and our video library. and find a lot of these interviews. also for the record -- you are now an american citizen. >> yes, i was when i did the job. i became a u.s. citizen in 2005. >> you were educated at harvard and yale and johns hopkins. >> i have a b.. a. from yale and an m.a. in john's hopkins and m.a. and ph.d. from harvard in history. >> george shultz was secretary of treasury and secre
don had been a roommate at u.s.c. and was just leaving the judge advocate's position in the army. i thought, don -- he is very anonymous and would fit in and could do this kind of thing. >> what happened to segretti? >> he went to jail, too. i actually met segretti. he was that close to doing an interview -- i talked to him twice. he was almost ready to do an interview and he didn't do one for the project. >> why? >> i don't know why. he didn't tell me why. >> he...
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don rumsfeld was struggling with how to change the pentagon. the way he wanted to change it left us a less repressive -- less prepared for dealing with 9/11. he wanted to cut the army and was reluctant to build it up. it made it more difficult for folks to deal with afghanistan and iraq. you want to be able to move ahead and take advantage of new technologies when it comes to military affairs. you also have to make strategic judgments about what kind of military you will need to deal with the threats we face. i want to go back to the clips. senator hagel has a selective memory about vietnam. we should remember one of the problems of vietnam was we decided to pull out precipitously and abandoned the vietnamese to the north. we cut off military aid. we stopped paying and the like. if one were to take that analogy, there is a good chance we will be doing the same thing to our partners in afghanistan over the next year. there are lessons from vietnam. let's not forget that one either. host: let me go back to the front page story of "the new york ti
don rumsfeld was struggling with how to change the pentagon. the way he wanted to change it left us a less repressive -- less prepared for dealing with 9/11. he wanted to cut the army and was reluctant to build it up. it made it more difficult for folks to deal with afghanistan and iraq. you want to be able to move ahead and take advantage of new technologies when it comes to military affairs. you also have to make strategic judgments about what kind of military you will need to deal with the...
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host: don is next from clifton, virginia. caller: a good time to segue the early seeds being sewn. things like the community reinvestment act and barack obama's attorneys forced banks to make it substandard loans. if the regulators had left the banks alone, the government do- gooders, we wouldn't have had all these problems. teargassed is calling for more government involvement and i think that is wrong. host: a chance to respond. guest: when you have a crisis that was this devastating and harmed this many people, i don't think the answer is to go about allowing these institutions to continue down that same path. i have not suggested are called for greater regulations of financial institutions. i have believe that we need to have regulators who have an appetite to regulate. we did not have that during the 2000's and the 1990's. there was a sense that deregulation was the answer and that government was the problem. this led to a free-for-all and a wild west in lending that created these problems. i agree with your caller in that the government did set out to promote home ownership.
host: don is next from clifton, virginia. caller: a good time to segue the early seeds being sewn. things like the community reinvestment act and barack obama's attorneys forced banks to make it substandard loans. if the regulators had left the banks alone, the government do- gooders, we wouldn't have had all these problems. teargassed is calling for more government involvement and i think that is wrong. host: a chance to respond. guest: when you have a crisis that was this devastating and...
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host: don in south windsor, connecticut, on the independent line. good morning. caller: hi. what i would like for him to explain is i give lectures at the university of connecticut to retired people, lot of them professors. i'm astounded at the lack of knowledge of these people have of the economic condition of the united states. these programs are complete jokes. if someone could explain to the american public, when people, with a 1.2 trillion debt reduction over 10 years, but $120 billion a year. our deficit is 1.2. all they're talking about 10% of the problem. the people don't understand. they think the 1.2 is equal to the deficit. it's only 10% of the deficit. my solution is to raise taxes by $300 billion and cut spending by $900. -- by $900 billion. i find the american public is not very smart. host: you know, that is -- the educational question is a fundamental question. here's what happens. let's talk in practical terms and not a theoretical terms. when paul ryan came out with his budget, he had some substantial changes in medicare and medicaid. over time they would'v
host: don in south windsor, connecticut, on the independent line. good morning. caller: hi. what i would like for him to explain is i give lectures at the university of connecticut to retired people, lot of them professors. i'm astounded at the lack of knowledge of these people have of the economic condition of the united states. these programs are complete jokes. if someone could explain to the american public, when people, with a 1.2 trillion debt reduction over 10 years, but $120 billion a...
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don stenburg. i won. then i won against the incum been governor who is now my colleague in the senat ben nelson. >> how did you beat him? what did you use? >> well, in august of 1996, ll every poll showed that i was 25 points behind. there was three months before the election. and i think it's like everything in life, brian, there's no magic bullet, no one thing. it's an accumulation of tng, of building a team, of building a process, of building a profile, of building a campaign that was strong and that was preparing itself to win. and like everything in life, building c-span, building your life, building anything, it doesn't happen in a day or a month or a year, if you do it right. and we did it right. i had tremendous people. low ann was a housewife, mother of four who never ran a campaign like this. i asked her to be the campaign manager. all the pros said what a dister. this woman doesn't know how to run anything. she ran campaigns for county sheriff and done well and electe a county sheriff but i bro
don stenburg. i won. then i won against the incum been governor who is now my colleague in the senat ben nelson. >> how did you beat him? what did you use? >> well, in august of 1996, ll every poll showed that i was 25 points behind. there was three months before the election. and i think it's like everything in life, brian, there's no magic bullet, no one thing. it's an accumulation of tng, of building a team, of building a process, of building a profile, of building a campaign...
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but nuclear weapons have don so for 40 years she said that in 1989. north korea, when they went nuclear, all other countries would go nuclear, japan would go nuclear. south korea is at war with north korea. japan hasn't gone nuclear. the lesson of north korea is if our third-rate dysfunctional country that mansions to acquire a couple of nuclear weapons you remain a third world country. it flows from your g.d.p. so we come to israel and the challenge that iran places there. what i would argue is that the iranians are cool, calculating in their rhetoric and in than in their actions than any other regime that we're talking about. they will be deterred. they will be deterred, remember israel has many submarines so they have second strike capacity. they will be deterred by america's vast arsenal of nuclear weapons. they don't have any net. we're talking about a war in the middle east where we will go and strike a regime. what would happen? the regime would gain support at home. every regime that has been attacked preemptively has the effect of rallying ar
but nuclear weapons have don so for 40 years she said that in 1989. north korea, when they went nuclear, all other countries would go nuclear, japan would go nuclear. south korea is at war with north korea. japan hasn't gone nuclear. the lesson of north korea is if our third-rate dysfunctional country that mansions to acquire a couple of nuclear weapons you remain a third world country. it flows from your g.d.p. so we come to israel and the challenge that iran places there. what i would argue...
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something pretty important that would revolutionize telecommunications, so i went back to bill and don and said, i am ready to do something. they said, you can own a third of the company. we will take the other two- thirds. you can be president. you will have the biggest share. we will control two-thirds. we will control a third, and i did not have any money. they said, that is ok. we will put what we have in, and that is how it got started. i had a 1985 buick and two insurance policies. i cashed in the insurance policies. i got $1,200 each. i came up with $5,000. my partner said, we will give the rest of your equity. you will be president, and we will see what we can do, and that is how it began. >> how many years were you in that business? >> we form did in august or september of 1982. we had it for three years, and then we brought some new partners in north carolina, and then we rolled are interested to that company, and i was with the new consolidated company from 1985 until 1987. i stayed on the board and was very active on the board. i did some management, so from 1982 until 1987
something pretty important that would revolutionize telecommunications, so i went back to bill and don and said, i am ready to do something. they said, you can own a third of the company. we will take the other two- thirds. you can be president. you will have the biggest share. we will control two-thirds. we will control a third, and i did not have any money. they said, that is ok. we will put what we have in, and that is how it got started. i had a 1985 buick and two insurance policies. i...
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. >> alice kaine with don teague plus. -- with teach plus. my question is about retention of effective teachers. the reason i ask is that teach recent months has had conferences by teachers and 43 around the country. we have had about 2000 participate so far and thousands are on weightless. -- are on a weightless. -- wait list. are you thinking about it this way, and what are the budgetary implications? does common core have an unintended consequence of [no audio] >> de organizing teachers on a large scale has been so darn hard. -- galvanizing teachers on a large scale has been so darn hard. and when you think you are doing well for teachers, but it is not quite enough, this is a hard problem. what are the technologies that are emerging that have promised? i think is exactly what alice talked about. exceptional teachers can now share their work in a way they never could before. if you look expert achievea thecore.org, which is always free, it is for teachers and by teachers pierpont -- and by teachers. if you are engaged and truly sharing stu
. >> alice kaine with don teague plus. -- with teach plus. my question is about retention of effective teachers. the reason i ask is that teach recent months has had conferences by teachers and 43 around the country. we have had about 2000 participate so far and thousands are on weightless. -- are on a weightless. -- wait list. are you thinking about it this way, and what are the budgetary implications? does common core have an unintended consequence of [no audio] >> de organizing...
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caller: how john brennan plan don meeting the perceived asian tilt. how the cia plans on tackling that. guest: the cia does not make foreign policy. to focus on a failed state where we have reason to believe that a loss of terror organizations are training. these are important things to do. the cia's role is to provide intelligence on these parts of the world and not to make policy. i'm betting that too much of our intelligence is tackle. it is focused on who is coming over the next hill in the battlefield. most of our intel assets into afghanistan and iraq. it is a good idea to restore some of our focus in other parts of the world, including asia. as a former policy maker, i would hope this rebalance toward asia will not focus on how we make relationships with china and others more difficult. i would hope it would help to join in the region to create a larger trading relationship and to better understand ways in which we can become close friends with china. i think that will be in everybody's interest and gives us information about leadership changes
caller: how john brennan plan don meeting the perceived asian tilt. how the cia plans on tackling that. guest: the cia does not make foreign policy. to focus on a failed state where we have reason to believe that a loss of terror organizations are training. these are important things to do. the cia's role is to provide intelligence on these parts of the world and not to make policy. i'm betting that too much of our intelligence is tackle. it is focused on who is coming over the next hill in the...
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host: don is next from clifton, virginia. caller: a good time to segue the early seeds being sewn. things like the community reinvestment act and barack obama's attorneys forced banks to make it substandard loans. if the regulators had left the banks alone, the government do- gooders, we wouldn't have had all these problems. teargassed is calling for more government involvement and i think that is wrong. host: a chance to respond. -- it was the community reinvestment act and barack obama's attorneys that fored banks to make substandard loans. if the regulators had left the banks alone to do their business we wouldn't have had these problems, and now we have your host calling for more government involvement and it is wrong. >> a chance to respond -- guest: when you have a crisis that was this devastating and harmed this many people, i don't think the answer is to go about allowing these institutions to continue down that same path. i have not suggested are called for greater regulations of financial institutions. i have believe that we need to have regulators who have an appetite to
host: don is next from clifton, virginia. caller: a good time to segue the early seeds being sewn. things like the community reinvestment act and barack obama's attorneys forced banks to make it substandard loans. if the regulators had left the banks alone, the government do- gooders, we wouldn't have had all these problems. teargassed is calling for more government involvement and i think that is wrong. host: a chance to respond. -- it was the community reinvestment act and barack obama's...
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don will be talking about detention and removeals. the fourth of the report, claire bergeron, is not a presenter, but she's sitting right there and i'm sure some of your questions, claire will field and i would like to change claire very much for all her efforts and thank my colleagues for this extraordinary report that i know you will all enjoy very much. thank you very much and doris, please come to the podium. >> good morning, thank you very much. my wish for a happy 2013, as well. we are talking this morning about immigration enforcement as dimitri has teed up. you know, it is often said there is no agreement in the country on immigration policy and that we are deeply divided and so forth. these are common things that we hear. of course, they are true, we are are deeply divided, but in fact there really has been one element of immigration policy that's been a source of support across the board for a very long time and that has been strengthened enforcement, especially border enforcement and deportation or remova ls. mpi has worked
don will be talking about detention and removeals. the fourth of the report, claire bergeron, is not a presenter, but she's sitting right there and i'm sure some of your questions, claire will field and i would like to change claire very much for all her efforts and thank my colleagues for this extraordinary report that i know you will all enjoy very much. thank you very much and doris, please come to the podium. >> good morning, thank you very much. my wish for a happy 2013, as well. we...
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caller: how john brennan plan don meeting the perceived asian tilt. how the ca plans on tackling that -- how the cia plans on tackling that. guest: the cia does not make foreign policy. to focus on a failed state where we have reason to believe that a loss of terror organizations are training. these are important things to do. the cia's role is to provide intelligence on these parts of the world and not to make policy. i'm betting that too much of our intelligence is tackle. it is focused on who is coming over the next hill in the battlefield. most of our intel assets into afghanistan and iraq. it is a good idea to restore some of our focus in other parts of the world, including asia. as a former policy maker, i would hope this rebalance toward asia will not focus on how we make relationships with china and others more difficult. i would hope it would help to join in the region to create a larger trading relationship and to better understand ways in which we can become close friends with china. i think that will be in everybody's interest and gives us
caller: how john brennan plan don meeting the perceived asian tilt. how the ca plans on tackling that -- how the cia plans on tackling that. guest: the cia does not make foreign policy. to focus on a failed state where we have reason to believe that a loss of terror organizations are training. these are important things to do. the cia's role is to provide intelligence on these parts of the world and not to make policy. i'm betting that too much of our intelligence is tackle. it is focused on...